Combined bracket and stand for lamps



No. 609.822. J. B. LONG. Patented Aug. 30, I898. COMBINED BRACKET ANDSTAND FDR LAMPS.

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UNITED STATES- PATENT OFFICE,

JOSEPH B. LONG, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

COMBINED BRACKET AND STAND FOR LAMPS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 609,822, dated August30, 1898.

Application filed March 8, 1897- To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J OSEPH B. Lone, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Bracket andStand for Lamps, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the present invention is to provide a simple andinexpensive device which may be used either as a bracket for supportinga lamp against a wall or a similar object or as a stand for supporting alamp on a table and which when used for the latter purpose will hold thefount of the lamp out of contact with the table.

The invention relates exclusively to that class of devices that are madeentirely of wire bent to shape, and it does not include any device ofwhich the several features of the device in which the invention consistsare not all formed of a single piece of wire.

The invention consists in a combined bracket and stand for lamps havinga fountring with a bend or loop which proceeds downward and serves thetriple purpose of increasing the elasticity of the ring,providing one ofa number of legs which are adapted to rest upon the table when thedevice is used as a stand and accommodating the handle of the lamp,

and having also legs additional to that resulting from the loop, and ahanger, the latter being preferably provided with means for supporting areflector, all of which features are made of a single piece of wire bentto shape.

In order that the invention may be fully understood, I will describe itwith reference to the accompanying drawings, which are made a part ofthis specification, and in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view ofacombined bracket and stand for lamps embodying the invention. Fig. 2 isa side elevation thereof with a lamp in place, showing the manner ofusing the device as a stand.

In its preferred form the entire device is constructed of a single pieceof stout springwire, which is appropriately bent in order to form thefeatureshereinafter described.

A represent an open spring-ring, which is adapted to embrace the fount Bof the lamp,-

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the latter being provided with an external bead or enlargement b,.whichcontacts with the fount-rin g and limits the downward movement of thefount through it. This ring is interrupted at o; for the purpose ofaccommodating the handle I) of the fount, where the fount is providedwith a handle; and in order to accomplish this interruption I prefer tobend the wire so as to form a U-shaped loop 0, which proceeds downwardfrom the horizontal plane of the fount-rim g a sufficient distance topass below the bottom of the fount and fulfils the triple purposealready described. At a point preferably diametrically opposite the loop0 the two branches of the wire of which the device is made proceedrearward from the fount-ring parallel with each other, as shown at D,and from the extremities of these parallel portions the two branchesproceed downward, diverging from each other, for the same distance belowthe fount-ring as does the loop 0, as shown at E, whence they proceedupward, first diverging and then converging, as shown at F, until theymeet. The portions E and F all lie in the same plane and form a broadhanger, which is adapted to rest flat against a wall for the purpose ofsupporting the lamp, and a pair of legs which, in conjunction with theleg C, are adapted to support the lamp upon a table, the parallelportions D constituting an arm, by which the fount-ring is connectedwith the hanger. IVhere the two branches of the wire meet they aretwisted together, as shown at f, for the purpose of securely unitingthem, and above this twisted portion they are bent twice at rightangles, first outward and then upward, forming a tongue G, which isofiset from the hanger F for the purpose of entering the socket H on therear side of the refiector I.

Having thus described my invention, the following is what I claim as newtherein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A combined bracket and stand for a lamp formed of a single piece ofwire bent to provide a ring adapted to embrace the fount, a loopproceeding downward from the fountring for the triple purpose of forminga leg, accommodating the handle of the lamp and increasing theelasticity of the ring, a hanger IOO r0 increasing the elasticity of thering, an arm having two branches proceeding rearward from thefount-ring, a pair of legs proceeding downward from the rear ends of thetwo branches of said arm, a hanger proceeding upward from said legs, andan offset tongue above the hanger for supporting the reflector,substantially as set forth.

JOSEPH B. LONG.

Witnesses:

L. M. HOPKINS, I. Gnoss.

